Linux-2.4.31 porting

Vitaly Bordug vbordug at ru.mvista.com
Wed Jan 18 07:08:21 EST 2006


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:33:21 -0000
Jose França (Ext_GTBC) <Jose.Franca.Ext at siemens.com> wrote:

> Hello u all!
> 
> 	Have you already ported a linux-2.4.31 to be used on a PPC mpc8272 (or anyone from the family) based board?
> 	The problem that I have is that i don't have console. As far as i could debug, the kernel stucks on my_console_write (in arch/ppc/cpm2_io/uart.c), waiting for transmitter fifo to empty (line 2298 - "while (bdp->cbd_sc & BD_SC_READY)").
> 	Any suggestions will be highly welcomed!
> 
> 

Better use 2.6 as 8272 is definitely OK there (and it was in 2.4 but I've almost forgotten issues in 2.4)

> 
> Thanks for reading!
> Best regards,
> Filipe.


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Sincerely, 
Vitaly



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